Juan Carlos Areán elected to FFI’s Board of Directors

FFI is delighted to announce that international activist and longtime ally Juan Carlos Areán has been elected to our Board of Directors. Juan Carlos was one of the first people to join FFI’s council of advisors in 2008 and has since been an active advocate for our work through his anti-violence, gender equity and racial equity work.

Juan Carlos is an internationally recognized activist, public speaker, trainer and facilitator, and published author. Since 1991, he has worked to engage men across different cultures to become better fathers, intimate partners and allies to end domestic violence and achieve gender equity. He is presently the Director of the Faith and Community Based Youth Violence Prevention Initiative at Futures Without Violence. Previously, he served as Director of the National Latin@ Network at Casa de Esperanza and as a Sexual Assault Prevention Specialist at Harvard University.

Juan Carlos is a founding member of the United Nations Network of Men Leaders to combat violence against women created by former Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He has served as an expert in many media outlets and has led hundreds of workshops and presentations throughout the United States, the Americas and the Caribbean, as well as in Europe, Asia, the US Congress and the United Nations in New York and Geneva.

A person of many interests, he has a Master’s degree in music composition and is an ordained interfaith interspiritual minister.

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